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  • One More Radio Drama

    Here’s something that links the last two entries on this blog. Following The Power of Yes yesterday, and the radio I was mentioning, I caught up with something else from the BBC World Service that I’d not previously listened to. The Day That Lehman Died details events in the US over the weekend when the…

  • Some Recent Radio (and TV)

    Apologies in advance – just about everything I’m going to mention here is now beyond the iPlayer’s Listen Again window. The BBC World Service has just finished another Worldplay series, this time based on the subject of science. The last piece was called Moving Bodies by Arthur Giron and starred Alfred Molina. It was actually…

  • Dabbl

    Allow me, if you will, a work related post. A few minutes ago saw the launch of dabbl, a new radio station from Absolute Radio. It’s an exciting new station that lets listeners choose the music. And for the record, because these things are important to know, the first track played was Bon Jovi and…

  • Stephen Fry on DAB in Just A Minute

    The BBC has launched a series of neat animations promoting Just A Minute. It’s curious, though, that they chose this particular excerpt from Stephen Fry on DAB… Nicely done, nonetheless. (Actually, we do need to face up to reception issues, and improve coverage strength so that these issues go away). As ever, these are my…

  • Pure Sensia

    Today I went along to the launch of a very interesting new radio, the Pure Sensia. It’s a DAB radio, FM radio, internet radio and media player rolled into one. But it also, interestingly allows you to use apps. And as we all know, there’s nothing more exciting than apps in 2009. I’ve got to…

  • Two Unmissable Things

    Here are two separate programmes that you simply must watch and listen to… for entirely different reasons. First off, there’s my current favourite radio feature on any programme anywhere at the moment. Yes, it’s an Absolute Radio show and I work there, and yes, I know all the people who make it. But honestly irrespective…

  • iPod Nano

    This week saw the annual refreshing of Apple’s iPod range. As always there was lots of speculation prior to the announcement about exactly what features would be included. There was lots of talk about cameras being fitted to various models, and about the long term future of the iPod Classic – the “original” iPod (this…

  • The Beatles Reissued

    Today marks the day that The Beatles complete catalogue is re-issed on CD (and quite possibly digitally – but we’ll find out later). The original CDs were – seemingly – fairly rushed affairs and during the intervening years, technology has marched on, and many less famous classic albums have had the remastering process applied. For…

  • All Change At Radio 2

    So the news that we all sort-of knew was going to happen anyway, has come to pass. Following a “BBC insider” having a chat with the Mail on Sunday over the weekend, El Tel has announced to his listeners that – yes – it is true. He’ll soon be departing his weekday breakfast show, and…

  • DAB in London

    While browsing through my DAB set in London I came across this. What could it be?

  • RAJAR Q2 2009

    This morning saw the release of the latest RAJAR radio audience listening data. Cue lots of press releases from lots of radio stations (You can read about Absolute Radio’s audience here). I suspect that many industry watchers will be looking at the digital listening percentage. That shows that 21.1% of all radio listening is being…

  • Selling Off Radio 1

    So Ed Vaizey is talking about selling off Radio 1 again is he? Obviously this makes no sense at all – and does nothing to help commercial radio. I’ve said this before when Peter Bazalgette suggested something similar and again when Richard Eyre said the same thing. I won’t run through the same arguments in…

  • David Cameron on Absolute Radio

    This is a clip from an interview I was videoing this morning… (And at time of writing it’s the most popular video on the BBC News site. Even though I’m not remotely responsible for the content of the video, I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I was rather chuffed to have footage on…